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Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties

  • Jen Silverman
  • Full Length Play, Dark Comedy, Present Day
  • 5F
  • ISBN: 9780573705427

"Told with a singular, wholly original voice that evokes Albee, Suzan Lori-Parks, and even the poetic lyricism of Ntozake Shange. And it is very, very funny."

DC Metro Theater Arts

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dark Comedy
  • 105 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: Mild Adult Themes, Strong Language

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
Betty is rich; Betty is lonely; Betty's busy working on her truck; Betty wants to talk about love, but Betty needs to hit something. And Betty keeps using a small hand mirror to stare into parts of herself she's never examined. Five different women named Betty collide at the intersection of anger, sex, and the "thea-tah."

PLEASE NOTE: This show has a mandatory music/media fee of A$35.00 per performance.
REVIEWS:

"[...] a perfect balance between the really absurd and the absurdly real."

 Broadway World

"Told with a singular, wholly original voice that evokes Albee, Suzan Lori-Parks, and even the poetic lyricism of Ntozake Shange. And it is very, very funny."

 DC Metro Theater Arts

"Five Stars! [...] this evocative exploration of women, relationships, love, and above all -- p***y -- will rock your world from the time the first of the quintet of Betty Boops are introduced through to the sentimental, albeit bizarre, ending."

 TheatreBloom

Premiere Production: Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties premiered at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, DC in September 2016 under the direction of Mike Donahue.

Characters

  • Casting: 5F
  • Casting Attributes: All Female

  • BETTY BOOP 1 - Femme, white, rich, uptight, fuelled by secret rage
    BETTY BOOP 2 - Femme, white, rich, uptight but coming undone, secretly obsessed with porn
    BETTY BOOP 3 - Femme, Latina, charismatic and pretty, kind of a know-it-all
    BETTY BOOP 4 - Butch lesbian, any ethnicity, great tattoos, gently melancholic, is too often ignored
    BETTY BOOP 5 - Butch lesbian, any ethnicity, great tattoos, just out of prison, owns a hole-in-the-wall boxing gym

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    Betty is rich; Betty is lonely; Betty's busy working on her truck; Betty wants to talk about love, but Betty needs to hit something. And Betty keeps using a small hand mirror to stare into parts of herself she's never examined. Five different women named Betty collide at the intersection of anger, sex, and the "thea-tah."

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